theater
The search for signs of intelligent life revisited in L.A.
October 25, 2016The play opens with Trudy, an intelligent, though visibly deranged street person anticipating the arrival of aliens from outer space.
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Babs’ majordomo in solo play “Buyer & Cellar”
October 21, 2016Jonathan Tolins’ Buyer & Cellar is one of those clever concoctions where it’s hard to know where fact ends and fiction begins.
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Edward Albee dies, “The Play About the Baby” premieres
September 30, 2016On the very day Edward Albee died his 1996 play had its Los Angeles premiere.
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Two plays about “command rape” – in war and in the office
July 22, 2016Two plays about how men use rape to exert power over the women they conquer, command, and employ.
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“Recorded in Hollywood”: Black musical pioneer John Dolphin’s story on stage
July 19, 2016We simply cannot accept that Recorded in Hollywood might close and never be heard from again. It has Broadway lights twinkling all over it.
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